Gov. Tina Kotek urged lawmakers this week to buckle down and make “hard decisions” about how to increase state funding for ...

Recent federal workforce cuts by the Trump administration have already reached several of Oregon's popular parks and forests.

Oregon lawmakers want to kill a wildfire risk map meant to identify areas of high risk that has become a lightning rod for ...

Kotek directed the state forestry department to pause any further action based on the map until the Legislature decides to ...

Courtesy of Hoedads Inc. Note: This is part of a series on the workers performing labor-intensive forestry. That’s all the work in this country’s forests that isn’t logging — vital ...

Internal documents show the Forest Service discussing — both internally and with the timber industry — how its legal and ...

Thousands of employees with the U.S. Forest Service were fired over the weekend, including some in Southern Oregon and ...

The recent resignation of Cal Mukumoto as state forester is reflective of the current political theater that is Salem, (“Oregon Department of Forestry leader resigns as controversy roils agency ...

Oregon State has the benefit of a long-established research focus on artificial intelligence. Underlying everything robotics ...

The point of the Wildfire Risk Map, first published in 2022, was to inform lawmakers and agencies like the Oregon Department of Forestry and the Oregon State Fire Marshal’s Office about where to best ...

Baker County’s three commissioners have signed a letter opposing the Oregon Department of Forestry’s latest version of a ...